Andrew ,'Damage'
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I've written in:
Huh. Must write in more fandoms, stat.
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The press has played fast and loose with the alleged victim -- I think all of her contact information has been published somewhere or another.
Good lord. That's all kinds of not cool.
Good lord. That's all kinds of not cool.
On one of the morning news shows, some reporter was interviewing a psychologist. We got about a minute and a half of the reporter asking, "Doesn't the fact that this girl has been reported to be a 'major party girl' and have gone out drinking with several men, and that she was known as a flirt, compromise the credibility of her testimony?" Then the psychologist got about three seconds to reply, "No, it doesn't," before they cut to some guys who lived in the same dorm with her freshman year talking about how she'd go out drinking three or four times a week.
And this is legal?
Well, anything about the woman's sexual past is not admissible in court, unless it's being used to rebut statements by the prosecuter. (Like, if the prosecuter says that the woman was a virgin, then the defense is allowed to bring in guys who say they slept with her before.) But according to my sister, who's a lawyer (she just walked in the room, so I figured I'd ask her), there are no laws against newspapers or TV reporting things like that; it's just generally agreed that it's Not Done.
And this is legal?
Not really, no. There's all kinds of room for defamation of character suits and the like in there. Unfortunately, though, that would put the woman more into the spotlight.
There are reasons the alleged victim's name isn't usually reported in cases like this.
Why is her identity open knowledge?
I've written (sadly, my archive is a bad count) 50 or 60 AtS and BtVS pieces, two pieces of political slash, one Smallville, and one popslash piece. Oh, and one co-written HCL/AtS PWP.
Stories range from drabbles to novellas, generally falling under short story or short shorts.
Why is her identity open knowledge?
Somehow--and I don't know the details--it got leaked onto the Internet.
Why is her identity open knowledge?
Because it's a big case, and there's no way to stop people from getting the information.
The identity of the alleged victim in a big media case will often get leaked. In this day and age, with the amount of tabloid web media, it's almost inevitable.
Oh, and one co-written HCL/AtS PWP.
Sorry, I meant twenty fandoms.